Homebrew [NDS] Yet Another nds-bootstrap Forwarder: more than 40 forwarders are now possible

lifehackerhansol · Sep 17, 2022

YANBF v1.6.2

https://github.com/YANBForwarder/YANBF/releases/tag/v1.6.2

Improvements

Another debugging string has been added to the log.
The program will now fail if the ROM is detected to not be on the SD card, or if a custom path is not set.
- Before this, it would silently succeed with the wrong path, or with the "/" character removed. This is no longer an issue and forces people to read the instructions on why it broke.

Known issues

DSiWare is not supported, as GameTDB does not provide box art for them (of course they don't, they don't come in a box.)

Please update the SD Forwarder Pack, which has seen quite a bit of updates since the last release. (Remember to keep it updated separately from YANBF!)

Thank you everyone for continuing to use YANBF. I haven't had time to work on it for a while, but there have been other people in the community continually submitting more custom banners and sounds for your favourite games, available to everyone!
Thanks to @Yrouel (once again), @Darthagnon, LochieDoesStuff (GitHub), and Astuary-King (GitHub) for more artworks submitted.

devildoug69 · Sep 18, 2022

I have to ask, is there an idiot proof video tutorial of this being used? I must have reached my skill ceiling with my 2ds and this forwarder. I have the files on my sd card set up and everything is set up homebrew wise but no matter what I do my forwarder path is wrong when I try and launch the game after installing it via FBI.

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 22, 2022

It seems that games with Katakana characters in their titles aren't supported (at least in the GUI). Is there any way to circumvent this?

lifehackerhansol · Sep 22, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
It seems that games with Katakana characters in their titles aren't supported (at least in the GUI). Is there any way to circumvent this?

Do you have an example game I can test? I don't read Japanese so I'd need one.

Pk11 · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
It seems that games with Katakana characters in their titles aren't supported (at least in the GUI). Is there any way to circumvent this?

It works fine for me, check that you have a Japanese font installed?

Edit: I'm using a version of the GUI from March, it's possible it broke since then

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

lifehackerhansol said:
Do you have an example game I can test? I don't read Japanese so I'd need one.

Front Mission 1st, Rockman Zero Collection, Front Mission 2089, and Infinite Space. All JP region of course. It shows up in the forwarder creator itself, it just runs into errors trying to make a forwarder. In the log it said "charmap codec cannot encode characters X-Y".

lifehackerhansol · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
Front Mission 1st, Rockman Zero Collection, Front Mission 2089, and Infinite Space. All JP region of course. It shows up in the forwarder creator itself, it just runs into errors trying to make a forwarder. In the log it said "charmap codec cannot encode characters X-Y".

Can you send the entire log? That would make it a lot easier to see where it's going wrong.

Also, what OS are you using?

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

Pk11 said:
It works fine for me, check that you have a Japanese font installed?

Edit: I'm using a version of the GUI from March, it's possible it broke since then

Do you mean like a Japanese language pack? I didn't before and all Hiragana titles worked. I downloaded one just in case and I'm still running into the same error.

lifehackerhansol said:
Can you send the entire log? That would make it a lot easier to see where it's going wrong.

Also, what OS are you using?

Windows. I tried to attach the log files in .7z format, but I'm too new of a user to be able to post files and it keeps stopping my attempts to post one of the logs in text form below. I'm going to make a couple more posts so I can send the logs. One second, sorry.

lifehackerhansol · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
Do you mean like a Japanese language pack? I didn't before and all Hiragana titles worked. I downloaded one just in case and I'm still running into the same error.

Windows. I tried to attach the log files in .7z format, but I'm too new of a user to be able to post files and it keeps stopping my attempts to post one of the logs in text form below. I'm going to make a couple more posts so I can send the logs. One second, sorry.

If you have a Discord, join the DSi Mode Hacking Discord server and ping me, that also works: https://ds-homebrew.com/discord.html

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

lifehackerhansol said:
If you have a Discord, join the DSi Mode Hacking Discord server and ping me, that also works: https://ds-homebrew.com/discord.html

Here they are.

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

lifehackerhansol said:
If you have a Discord, join the DSi Mode Hacking Discord server and ping me, that also works: https://ds-homebrew.com/discord.html

Oh and before I forget, thanks for helping.

Pk11 · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
Here they are.

ewwww I think stdout is Windows 1252 on Windows for some godforsaken reason... On a sane computer it should be UTF-8, but it's actually the logging itself that's crashing for you... Might need to somehow strip out unsupported characters from the log so it doesn't crash if you're on a dumb OS.

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

Pk11 said:
ewwww I think stdout is Windows 1252 on Windows for some godforsaken reason... On a sane computer it should be UTF-8, but it's actually the logging itself that's crashing for you... Might need to somehow strip out unsupported characters from the log so it doesn't crash if you're on a dumb OS.

That's odd. I'm not sure if I fully understand the issue and if this wouldn't be useful information in its context, but my version of windows is fully capable of using Katakana characters in its base text editor. I just tested it out. Is there any reason you can think of that it would break trying to use Katakana specifically? Like, to clarify, it can log Hiragana; it's specifically Katakana that's the issue.

Also I'm guessing that without a new exception handler for unsupported characters in the logger, there's gonna be no way to make forwarders for these games on my OS?

Pk11 · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
That's odd. I'm not sure if I fully understand the issue and if this wouldn't be useful information in its context, but my version of windows is fully capable of using Katakana characters in its base text editor. I just tested it out. Is there any reason you can think of that it would break trying to use Katakana specifically? Like, to clarify, it can log Hiragana; it's specifically Katakana that's the issue.

Also I'm guessing that without a new exception handler for unsupported characters in the logger, there's gonna be no way to make forwarders for these games on my OS?

That's really weird that it can log hiragana, since the crash says it's trying to encode to CP1252 (Windows 1252)

Code:

Thu Sep 22 2022 18:19:11 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time):   File "generator.py", line 307, in makecia
  File "generator.py", line 56, in message
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.10.7\x64\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode

Windows 1252 doesn't support any Japanese...

I'm home how so I'll try it out on my Windows computer.

Pk11 · Sep 23, 2022

it's indeed an encoding issue, works perfectly on my Japanese Windows computer, but crashes the same way on my dad's English (US) computer. Though hiragana crashes it for me too. (おいでよ　どうぶつのもり)

For now just set your Windows locale to Japanese and it should work.

Open Control Panel
Click "Change date, time, and number formats"
Switch to the "Manage" tab
Click "Change System Locale"
Set it to "Japanese (Japan)" ("日本語(日本)") and click OK
Reboot

(Names might not be 100% accurate, I'm translating from Japanese)

Edit:
I've done more testing and it works from cmd, but somehow the GUI is changing the encoding of stdout to Windows 1252.... I hate windows so much

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

Pk11 said:
it's indeed an encoding issue, works perfectly on my Japanese Windows computer, but crashes the same way on my dad's English (US) computer. Though hiragana crashes it for me too. (おいでよ　どうぶつのもり)

For now just set your Windows locale to Japanese and it should work.

Open Control Panel

Click "Change date, time, and number formats"

Switch to the "Manage" tab

Click "Change System Locale"

Set it to "Japanese (Japan)" ("日本語(日本)") and click OK

Reboot

(Names might not be 100% accurate, I'm translating from Japanese)

Edit:
I've done more testing and it works from cmd, but somehow the GUI is changing the encoding of stdout to Windows 1252.... I hate windows so much

Thank you so much for your help. Testing it out now.

ParanoidBetazoid · Sep 23, 2022

Pk11 said:
it's indeed an encoding issue, works perfectly on my Japanese Windows computer, but crashes the same way on my dad's English (US) computer. Though hiragana crashes it for me too. (おいでよ　どうぶつのもり)

For now just set your Windows locale to Japanese and it should work.

Open Control Panel

Click "Change date, time, and number formats"

Switch to the "Manage" tab

Click "Change System Locale"

Set it to "Japanese (Japan)" ("日本語(日本)") and click OK

Reboot

(Names might not be 100% accurate, I'm translating from Japanese)

Edit:
I've done more testing and it works from cmd, but somehow the GUI is changing the encoding of stdout to Windows 1252.... I hate windows so much

Actually while changing the system locale as you described in your post, I noticed that there is a check-box for a beta feature to use UTF-8 right under the drop-down menu of locations. I ticked it and lo and behold it works. No need to switch locales.

lifehackerhansol · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
Actually while changing the system locale as you described in your post, I noticed that there is a check-box for a beta feature to use UTF-8 right under the drop-down menu of locations. I ticked it and lo and behold it works. No need to switch locales.

Ideally we'd want a solution that does not involve fucking with the system itself. There's work in progress for this, but it seems to be an encoding issue from the GUI in particular (I'm not sure why it's doing it, but thanks Electron.)

~~Man I want to drop the JavaScript and make my own GUI but it's so painful to do that~~

Pk11 · Sep 23, 2022

ParanoidBetazoid said:
Actually while changing the system locale as you described in your post, I noticed that there is a check-box for a beta feature to use UTF-8 right under the drop-down menu of locations. I ticked it and lo and behold it works. No need to switch locales.

I've semi-fixed the issue with #39. Your issue should be fixed, however makerom is crashing on non-system code page characters so you have to keep your file names in the system code page still.

It at least shouldn't crash for out-of-code-page game titles now

AmandaRose · Oct 3, 2022

Every time I boot the forwarder I created for Fire Emblem Heroes of Light and Shadow I get the bellow message. Any way to stop this message popping up? The message doesn't show if I boot the rom from twighlight menu so not sure what is happening.

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